I have to laugh when the Washington high society
do-gooders realize their hero General was having an affair at taxpayer expense
in Afghanistan with some woman who was suppose to be writing
a book. Someone should write a book on how the Army really
works. It is the perfect enforced caste system comprised of three
groups or classes, the lowest being the enlisted men (EM) Private and Corporals,
the middle class being the Sergeants or Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO), and the
privileged or ruling class, the Officers.
A
Corporal can tell a Private what to do. The Sergeants can tell the
Corporals and Privates what to do. But both the EM and NCO’s have
to salute the lowly Second Lieutenant who can tell them all what to do.
The system is enforced by Company punishment and court marshals.
As an example, if an EM was a few minutes late getting back to camp on a
pass, it was Company punishment which was a four hour march up a nearby mountain
in the middle of the night, administered by a Sergeant. If he was
hours late, it was a court marshal by an Officer, which resulted in “6 and
2/3rds”, six months in the stockade and 2/3rds of his salary.
Washington’s favorite General while on active duty and before he was Director
of the CIA was paid
$18,000 per month and had hundreds of thousands of Army troops and personnel
under him who all had to salute him. His only boss was the
President. He obviously thought he was above the law.
One of
my jobs as a Jeep driver was to haul the prisoners to the stockade to serve
their “six and 2/3rds” punishment. I hauled dozens, but only one
Staff Sergeant, and no Officers.
Jack can be reached at
PO Box 40,
Oak Grove, MO 64075, or jackremembers@aol.com.
Visit www.jackremembers.com
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